As we continue our study of Romans chapter Nine and verse Four, we move on to one of the most contentious subjects in the Bible.  Why it should be so contentious is completely beyond my understanding.  It is that of the LAW OF GOD.  Does it still exist, and is it still in operation, or has it been abolished and replaced by something else?  Let us read Paul’s full statement of the relationship of the Law with Israel, as recorded in Romans 9:3-5;
 

“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

 It’s high time the false prophets in our pulpits who teach that the Law of God is no longer in operation should take very special heed to the final verses recorded above.  Quoting Romans 6:14, “For ye are not under the law but under grace” is, in my opinion, sheer hypocrisy.  Why are they not honest enough to quote Romans 3:31;
 

“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”

 The only conclusion to which we can come is that such ministers who teach this doctrine are totally devoid of any real knowledge and understanding of the Law of God, let alone its purpose.  These Laws comprise;  a); The commandments and statutes, which itemise very thoroughly what God allows and disallows us to do, the breaking of which is designated as SIN.  There is no ambiguity in I John 3:4 where it states, “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression (or breaking) of the law.  b); the Judgments, which also itemises just as fully the penalty which is to be exacted upon those who break these laws of commandments and statutes; and c); the ordinances, which were the animal sacrifices which the people of Israel were to offer for the forgiveness and remission of their sins.   These are the “laws” of which Paul spoke, as recorded in Ephesians 2:15 and Colossians 2:14.  They were “the laws contained in ordinances” which were nailed to the cross.  They therefore were no longer required to be observed, now being superseded by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.  But this is no way affected the continuity or efficacy of the much larger bulk of the law, without which sin could not even be defined.
 But the main point of this study is the relationship of this Law of God with His people Israel.  It will no doubt come as a complete surprise to most Christians, especially those who reject, or don’t even know of, the identity of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples of the world, together with a substantial portion of Judah, as the literal descendants of the entire 12 tribes of Israel, and thus the inheritors of God’s blessings, to read a statement to the fact that the Law of God was not given to any other nation but His own people Israel. They were never given to any nation but Israel.  Let us read Psalm 147:19-20;
 

19  “He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20    He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.”

 And for those who take refuge in other translations if the Authorised Version doesn’t suit what they want to believe, here is a selection of what eight other translations have to say regarding the very same verse 20;

Ferrar Fenton:-     To all nations He did not do thus.  His decisions He taught not to them.

Septuagint:- He has not done so to any other nation, and He has not shewn them His judgments.

N. I. V. He has done this for no other nation.  They do not know His laws.

Smith and Goodspeed:- He has not acted thus with any other nation, nor do they know His judgments.

Moffat:- Never has He done so with any other nations.  They know not His commandments.

Amplified:- He has not dealt so with any (other) nation

Lamsa:- He has not dealt so with all nations, and His judgments He has not made known to them.

N.A.S.B:- He has not dealt thus with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they hath not known them

 Thus we see that all references to the Law of God can only be applied to Israel, and to no other nation!   The result of the introduction of “multiculturalism” is that the “laws and customs” of the other nations - being based on their varying religions - have now been superimposed over God’s Laws, to the detriment and the perversion of our own Christian faith.
 It is because we have rationalised  God’s Laws so as to make them acceptable to other peoples and nations of different faiths and religions, that we are now suffering the loss of God’s blessing upon our collective Christian-Israel nations in the world today!!  Because of the differences in cultures which have been allowed entrance into our Christian nations, we have made every attempt to express our faith in terms, and terminology, which they understand, and which will not give offence.
Thus the compromise of God’s Word is well and truly advanced.  We have reached the stage - by virtue of “political correctness” - when followers of any and all religions can freely distribute their heathen doctrines amongst us without let or hindrance.  And if a Christian publicly expresses opposition to this situation he is automatically branded as a racist and made subject to prosecution under the law.  Then when we appear in court we are sworn to tell “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”, upon the very Book which teaches the subject for which we are being prosecuted.   When are we going to awake to what is being done to us as a once Christian nation?
Deuteronomy chapter 28 contains 68 verses.  Verses 1 to 14 enumerate 23 blessings which will fall upon us if we obey God’s Laws.  But it takes 54 verses to enumerate the 95 curses and sufferings which will fall upon us if we disobey these laws.
What is more, if the reader will check this for themselves and not just take my word for it,  you will find that we are not experiencing ANY of the blessings which follow obedience, but that we are suffering from EVERY curse that God promised if we disobeyed Him.
How long are we going to persist in this blatant and ignorant foolishness?
God did not give us these laws as restrictions to our freedom.  He gave them to us to give us more freedom, by virtue of all the blessings with which He had always intended for us, both as individuals, and as a nation.  Let us especially note His promise and warning as stated in Deuteronomy 30:11-20;
 

11  “For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12  It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13  Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14  But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15  See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16  In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18  I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20  That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

“Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?”

Modern theology teaches us that because of Israel’s sinfulness, God could not do any more for them as a nation, and thus transferred the Abrahamic blessings to the “church”.  If the was the case, then one could reasonably expect that the last verse quoted above would read;
 

“Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty “church”, and all the “churches” of the earth shall be blessed in him?”

And, of course, what becomes of God’s promise recorded in Malachi 3:6;
 

“I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed”?

These two verses clearly show that all the nations, and all the families of the earth are destined, as part of God’s plans and purposes, to be blessed by and through His people Israel.
This would be well nigh impossible if the nation of Israel was not firstly brought into the state of perfection which would be required in order to fulfil these promises.
This is confirmed in I Chronicles 17:21-22;
 

“And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.”

9  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10  Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11  I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
12  I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.”

Thus, because of our national sins and disobedience, we had become separated from the position for which He had formed us, it became necessary to restore us to our position as “The Sons of God”, as recorded in Romans 8:19;  (NASB).
 

“For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.”

This was the ultimate plan.  But before it could be made operational, these “lost” people had to be found and, as we stated above, restored.  What did our Lord mean when He referred to Israel being “lost”?   Had they disappeared from all knowledge?  Had they been destroyed or replaced?  Not at all!
In Matthew 10:5-6; Matthew 10:24;  Matthew 18:11, and Luke 19:10,  we read about  these “lost” people, together with our Lord’s very explicit instructions regarding them;
 

“These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:  But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

“But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

“For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

The word “lost” as used here certainly does not mean what is generally taught and understood, that is, of being destroyed or replaced by another nation.  That application would be entirely at variance with God’s promise that Israel would never be destroyed or replaced.  But it also applies to being in a place where they aught not be, and associated with punishment.  Thus we arrive at the meaning intended here of Israel being set aside as an act of punishment.
If Israel is the only people sent away in punishment as a result of their sins - and there is absolutely no statement to the contrary in the Bible - then they the only people who can be brought back from such punishment into a place of safety - which is the meaning of the word “saved”.
How else could we understand the words of the prophet Ezekiel as recorded in Ezek. 34:6-16, and 30-31;
 

6  My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7  Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
8  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9  Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
11  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12  As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14  I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
16  I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.”

30  “Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
31  And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.”

Let us be quite clear in our minds and understanding, that neither David, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Isaiah, or any of the other prophets or patriarchs knew anything about God changing His mind regarding His promises, and substituting something else for them.  It would have been totally unthinkable to them, as it should be for us.  Why would David have written Psalm 95:7 and 100:3 if he doubted God’s absolute integrity?
 

“For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.”

“Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

 I feel that by now we have established quite clearly the relationship of Israel with both God and God’s Laws, and the responsibility which this placed upon Israel.

But what of the other non-Israel nations of the world?  What is their position in God’s plans?  And more importantly, what provision has the God of Israel made for these people?
That He has made provision for them is, in my opinion, quite clearly stated in the Scriptures.  Let us look firstly at what King Solomon said to the Lord, as recorded in I Kings 8:41-43;
 

“Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.”                     (Emphasis added).

The word “stranger” used in the above verse means, as stated in Strong’s Concordance #5237. nokriy, nok-ree'; from H5235 (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful):--alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange (-r, woman).

 There can be no doubt but that Solomon’s plea refers to non-Israel people.  So we must ask ourselves, “Why include  such a statement if non-Israelites are excluded from God’s plans and purposes?”  Let us not forget that God made all races for a specific purpose.  What that purpose is, we might not at this time be fully aware, but it will most certainly be revealed in God’s good time.
 Furthermore, if other races and nations are excluded from God’s plans and purposes for the future, why on earth would God inspire both Isaiah and Micah to record the very same statement, as recorded in Isaiah 2:3;
 

“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.”

“But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.  Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,  and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"--safe to do all these detestable things?  Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD.”   (N.I.V.)

 Every problem that the Anglo-Israel people are suffering today is directly related to our disobedience to the righteous laws which He has so mercifully provided for us. Yes! God is indeed watching.